10 Theories How Wolverine Can Fit Into X-Men: Apocalypse

4. Wolverine's GoingTo Tie Up Days Of Future Past's Loose Ends

If the Alkali Lake sequence isn't tying directly into Apocalypse's plot, then that makes it a narrative detour, some mid-film padding to show the characters using their powers when things aren't really at stake and throw in a fan-baiting cameo. Or maybe not...

While Days Of Future Past did an excellent job of sorting out the X-Men timeline, freeing up the muddled continuity, it didn't do it without introducing its own fair share of plot holes. How did Professor X come back after The Last Stand? How do you account for Wolverine's pre-1973 adventures? How did the events of First Class happen in both timelines? What about Deadpool?

We're unlikely to get answers to all of these, but Singer has said that the Wolverine sequence "fits within the canon of all six movies" and hints at "the birth of a new direction", which suggests that, while at first Apocalypse looked to be just playing in the fresh timeline, it will in some way examineat how that new continuity is constructed.

Only Fox knows how, but it's a tantalising tease, and it makes sense to do this with Wolverine;he's bridge between the two worlds.Although there isa question over how that'll work too...